Blog
2022
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Cemetery Stories: E. Sclater Montague (1895–1980)
Montague cherished his friendships with the rectors of our church. In fact, he wrote a monograph for the Syms-Eaton Museum titled, “St. John’s Church and the Ministers I Knew.”
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Cemetery Stories: Colonel Thomas Tabb and Family (1835–1902)
On 18 March 1910, Heffelfinger discovered and excavated the second location of St. John’s Church in an area known as the “Old Graveyard Thickett” on the farm of the late Colonel Thomas Tabb.
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Digging Up the Past: Our Second Site
Based on this research Alain considers it is possible that the location of our first church may be on, or in the vicinity of, our second church site.
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Children and Youth Christian Formation Returns
After two years of no in-person Christian Formation for children and youth, the program re-emerged on March 6, 2022, the first Sunday in Lent.
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Music Ministry Report for 2021
By Easter we held 3 services: 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. both indoors with 2 trumpets and 8 choir singers in masks, and a 1 p.m. outdoor service with full choir and brass quartet.
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Cemetery Stories: Jacob Andrew Ferguson (1886–1961)
My grandfather was a banker. He worked for Citizens National Bank in downtown Hampton from 1917 until his retirement in 1952.
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Cemetery Stories: Jacob Heffelfinger (1840–1915)
Jacob Heffelfinger was a symbol of reconciliation after the Civil War.
